From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] New internal command for acme proposal (with implementations)
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 09:04:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140205170448.DB748B827@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:39:23 +0100." <16013898.13E5ahJyav@coil>
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:39:23 +0100 dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What I want is support for complex text layout rendering (for Indian
> > languages among others). This requires supporting OpenType fonts, not an
> > easy task. Mac's TextEdit seems to do a decent job of this but I don't
> > like it as an editor.
>
>
> `having all the bells and whistles' doesn't make a great editor for
> programmers.
CTL rendering is a a basic requirement for complex scripts, I
am afraid! Support for it would be in font handling, not
acme. I was just saying it would nice to be able to use acme
for Indic scripts. Though I don't see it as a realistic option
at the moment for a variety of reasons.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-05 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-24 10:44 Uvelichitel
2014-01-24 10:59 ` Uvelichitel
2014-01-24 11:15 ` dexen deVries
2014-02-05 10:49 ` Alexander Sychev
2014-02-05 11:36 ` erik quanstrom
2014-02-05 16:04 ` Bakul Shah
2014-02-05 16:10 ` erik quanstrom
2014-02-05 16:26 ` Bakul Shah
2014-02-05 16:39 ` dexen deVries
2014-02-05 17:04 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2014-01-24 12:49 Uvelichitel
2014-01-24 17:32 ` Bence Fábián
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